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20 September 2011

• Collaborative Leadership in Financial Services

  Collaborative Leadership in Financial Services is a practical guide which focuses on technologists within investment banking and capital markets. It is intended for everyone within the hierarchy of an organization whose collaboration is essential for the smooth running of a technology operation with many stakeholders. It helps improve leadership by showing how to make this collaboration successful and effective.

• Value Management

  Failing to understand the causal links between the intended stakeholder outcomes and the actual programme outputs can be fatal to any project. Value Management explains how direction and delivery can be clarified and improved by examining the baseline business case and benefits realisation.

19 September 2011

• Instant Road Repair has been repairing petrol station forecourt potholes all across Sweden

  There are currently almost 4,000 petrol stations across Sweden, and with a population of 9.3 million (many of whom are car owners) it is no surprise that potholes on petrol station forecourts are an issue of concern.

• Take Cloud Hosting Your Documents To The Next Level Using Document Management and Scanning Services

  It is becoming increasingly popular to host your documents online via a cloud service.

15 September 2011

• Time Keeping No Longer a Spanner in the Works for Rotamec

  Claire Pearson, from Cheddar based electrical engineering business, Rotamec, was tearing her hair out over her antiquated and inaccurate time keeping system, which had been costing her both time and money over the years, until her boss came across a more professional solution from Access-to-Time…

14 September 2011

• Victory for Beehive !

  Beehive Folding Partitions has recently been involved in a renovation project at the Victory Hall in the West Yorkshire village of Thorner.

• ‘SE Controls New Tamper Proof Manual Control Point (MCP)’

  SE Controls have designed and introduced a new Tamper Proof Manual Control Point (MCP) for automatic opening smoke ventilation systems in new and existing smoke shaft applications.

• Inside Accounting: The Sociology of Financial Reporting and Auditing

  Inside Accounting examines how accountants and non-accounting managers construct their company's earnings. As well as considering the accounting structure such as budgeting and financial control, David Leung looks at how people prepare for and facilitate the audit, and how a person's professional experience influences their view of the process and its results. His research into the theory and practice of accounting will be of interest to professionals and academics in the field, and to sociolog

• The Globalisation of Corporate Governance

  The structure of corporate governance has made significant progress in OECD countries but it remains imperfectly linked to the activities of many businesses. Its advance on the global stage will be hesitant and slow until its practice in OECD countries is more consistent and convincing. The Globalisation of Corporate Governance, explores the challenges of adapting it to different cultural norms and making corporate governance effective for all participants in a global economy.

08 September 2011

• Ultracrete to reduce cost of roadwork congestion charge

  According to a recent BBC report, civil engineering and utility companies could land themselves with hefty charges for imposing roadworks on busy highways if the Governments' lane rental scheme gets the go ahead.